These men as a combine, are subsidiary to the great Vice Trust. These men play directly into the hands of the Directorate of Ten which we have shown as feasting off the well laden tables of prostitution, sin and women. They derive their terrible and crushing power through the big vice masters. They divide the profits with them. They pay high protection in order to operate the thousand and one forms of gambling which they back daily, from the cheap crap games to the highest and most money yielding games of bridge or to the most lucrative, whirling roulette wheels. One of these men controlling this terrible vice is today a member of the city council making Chicago's laws for righteousness; one is a former member of the Illinois State legislature; one holds a high place in City Hall circles, and another is a prominent business man carrying on a business as a veil to his real and disgraceful profession. THE HANDBOOK EVIL AND ITS GRAFT. There exist in Chicago 1,000 handbooks. A handbook, for the benefit of the unsophisticated reader, is a record made in a local place of horse races which are being run off at a distance. As for instance, a cigar store in the loop district makes bets on races which are being run off at Jacksonville, Florida. The handbooks are run in saloons, cigar stores, hotels, and on newsstands. Here the dollars of the sucker patrons are drawn from their pockets as by magic, turned over to the agents of the gambling trust, never to return. Clerks, stenographers, office boys, all classes of salaried men and women are the victims of the handbook habit in Chicago. Day after day this unseeing public scratches its head of "solid ivory," puzzles its brain in desperation and goes out to "beat" the combination that never has known a real defeat. Barnum said "there is one sucker born every minute." Truly there is. The birth statistics of the Chicago sucker, male and female, mostly male, is greater than the birth rate of innocent children. This is a queer world. THE WOMAN GAMBLER. In quiet and refined neighborhoods, in the rear of candy stores and even dry goods stores, women who are considered spotless by their social associates drop in daily, nervously look over the "dope sheet," pick their winner, and hurl their husbands' hard-earned dollars into the yawning pockets of the gambling combine. THE GAMBLING VEINS OF THE COUNTRY. These thousand handbooks daily furnishing the names of horses running on every track in the United States, must have some means of acquiring that important information. The Vice Trust is never at loss to furnish a medium through which its graft may be increased. The members of the Vice Trust looked about for men trained to the fine arts of separating the innocent and unwary from their dollars, and found the men who today are the leaders of the gambling combine. These men incorporated themselves secretly into a powerful corporation,--the gambling industry, capital unlimited.